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μεταβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεταβολή

Structure: μεταβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: metaba/llw

Sense

  1. a change, changing
  2. exchange, barter, traffic
  3. a transition, change, changes, vicissitudes, change from, change to . ., going over, change to
  4. an eclipse
  5. change, a revolution
  6. a wheeling about

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • σὺ δὲ πηνίκα, ὦ Πυθαγόρα, διηγήσῃ τὰ περὶ τῶν μεταβολῶν; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 6:7)
  • ἦν δὲ τῶν μεταβολῶν ἑνδεκάτη τὸν ἀριθμὸν αὕτη. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 41 2:1)
  • νυνὶ δὲ τἀκόλουθ’ ἀποδοῦναι πειράσομαι, πῶσ ἂν γένοιτο λέξισ πολιτικὴ παρ’ αὐτὴν τὴν σύνθεσιν ἡδύνουσα τὴν ἀκρόασιν κατά τε τὰ μέλη τῶν φθόγγων καὶ κατὰ τὰσ συμμετρίασ τῶν ῥυθμῶν καὶ κατὰ τὰσ ποικιλίασ τῶν μεταβολῶν καὶ κατὰ τὸ πρέπον τοῖσ ὑποκειμένοισ, ἐπειδὴ ταῦθ’ ὑπεθέμην τὰ κεφάλαια. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1147)
  • καὶ μηδεὶσ ὑπολάβῃ θαυμαστὸν εἶναι τὸν λόγον, εἰ καὶ τῇ πεζῇ λέξει φημὶ δεῖν ἐμμελείασ καὶ εὐρυθμίασ καὶ μεταβολῶν, ὥσπερ ταῖσ ᾠδαῖσ καὶ τοῖσ ὀργάνοισ, εἰ μηδενὸσ τούτων ἀντιλαμβάνεται τῆσ Δημοσθένουσ ἀκούων λέξεωσ, μηδὲ κακουργεῖν με ὑπολάβῃ τὰ προσόντα τῇ ψιλῇ λέξει προσμαρτυροῦντα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 48 3:4)
  • "καθ’ αὑτὸν ἀπορεῖν ὁμολογεῖ, καὶ θαυμάζειν ὅτι οὐδὲν γάρ ἐστι δεινὸν οὐδ’ ἄτοπον αἰτίασ ζητεῖν τῶν τοιούτων μεταβολῶν ἀναιρεῖν δὲ τὰσ τέχνασ καὶ τὰσ δυνάμεισ, ἄν τι κινηθῇ καὶ παραλλάξῃ τῶν κατὰ ταύτασ, οὐ δίκαιον. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 18 1:6)
  • ἐν ὕδατι πολλῷ, σπέρμα μεταβόλων̣ ὡσ ἀμητοῦ εἰσφερομένου οἱ μετάβολοι τῶν ἐθνῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 23:3)

Synonyms

  1. a change

  2. exchange

  3. an eclipse

  4. change

  5. a wheeling about

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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